2009 flu pandemic

In January 1993, the first major E. coli outbreak swept through the northwestern United States. This is not the first time that a person had been infected with E. coli, but it is the first time that an outbreak became widely known and as far spread. Jack in the Box fast food chain was accredited with the blame for this first big E. coli outbreak. Ever since this first large infection with Escherichia coli the world has been on edge, not wanting another major outbreak. Jack in the Box…

There are a few differences between San Francisco and New York City. One being, the San Francisco climate doesn’t fluctuate as much as the climate in NYC. NYC has hot, hot summers and cold winters (snow storms). But, the weather in SF doesn’t change much (no snow). San Francisco weather is the same because, it is similar to the temperature of the pacific ocean, which is known as an oceanic climate. Air masses move across the continent (towards NYC) off the ocean and change due to the amount of…

Recently, there has been a lot of debates about the Black Plague disease. One group of scholars, represented by the lecturer, believe that the disease origin and transmission is different from what is discussed in the reading passage. The first area of dispute is the origin of the black plague. It has been aimed that the origin of this plague was from Asia and North Africa especially that the last one is still having out breaks until today. According to the professor, an archaeologist was…

Sweeping the nations is a plague called The bird flu. This disease is extremely dangerous and is rapidly spreading uncontrollably. At the rate this plague is spreading now, 50% of the world’s population will be dead in a matter of months! The bird flu is also immensely contagious. Due to air travel, the bird flu can become intercontinental in only a few hours. This plague has done damage, is doing damage, and will continue to do more damage unless it is stopped. Power in the government is…

were accidentally exposed and later died. One case occurred at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona in 2007 when a wildlife biologist autopsied a mountain lion that was later found to be infected with plague. The second case occurred in Chicago in 2009 when a geneticist working with Y. pestis did not wear…

The Black Death was ‘one of the worst disasters in history’, killing a third of Europe’s population. In the 14th century the plague hit Asia and Europe, lasting from 1346 till 1352. The Black Death was an epidemic plague in the 1300’s, which spread rapidly throughout Asia and Europe. The causes of the Black Death weren’t just animals and fleas, humans played a great part in the spreading of the plague throughout Europe. Many symptoms were shown at early stages of the plague such as headaches,…

In 1793 a prompt fever ran through the urbanization of Philadelphia like the swiftest track contestant in the universe. That delirium was called yellow fever. If you had a vile case of yellow fever you had the choice of a French physician or an American physician to treat you.Yellow fever blew in Philadelphia by the nonresident freights. It happened in the burning hot as a coal summer of 1793. If you got tainted by yellow fever you must have gotten pecked by negligible, hypersonic , uproarious…

The Black Death has many names. They consisted of Black Plague, the Bubonic Plague, The Plague, and Pestilence. The Black Plague occurred during 1348-1349 in Western Europe, but if you include Eastern Europe as well and it’s other more remote places then the years would be 1347-1351. According the article named The Black Death, Historians believe that 25%-50% of the entire population of Western Europe died in these two years. From the same article, other pestilences went through Europe and…

The Black Plague The Black Plague was a period where death was present in all corners and struck fear to all those living in Europe. Social class became a thing of the past and families would be torn apart without warning. A person’s wealth no longer held any worth because no amount of money could shield you of the plague. The Black Plague was a dark period in time when all were afraid and people could only hope to keep their sanity. Little order was left in Europe and all could only live in…

Over 80 years after the1918 flu virus disappeared, epidemiologists still did not understand exactly why it was so devastating. After working with tissue samples from the autopsies of flu victims and the infected lung tissue of an Alaskan woman whose body had been preserved in Arctic permafrost, researchers at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were able to recreate an extinct virus. Then, in October of 2005, they announced that they had…